Friday marks the official opening of spring training for position players, though many of them have been in Mesa since at least early January. And now that a certain someone has signed elsewhere, attention finally turns to the players who are actually on the roster. Well, I guess in this case it’s someone who isn’t on the 40-man…yet. Matt Shaw has been the presumptive starter at third base for a while now and he remains so now that the Cubs’ bid to add a high-profile corner man fell well short.
With few viable options currently available, the job is Shaw’s to lose.